Donald Trump’s first impeachment in 2019 was over a phone call with Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Democrats said Trump pressured Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter by dangling military aid. Trump said it was a perfectly normal call and that he was just concerned about corruption – and the Bidens looked like they were knee-deep in corruption.
The House impeached Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, but when it got to the Senate, Republicans weren’t buying the scandal-of-the-century storyline, and Orange Man Bad was acquitted.
Round two came in 2021 after the January 6 Capitol attack, when a mob stormed the Capitol while Congress was certifying the election. Democrats charged Trump with inciting the chaos, arguing his rhetoric lit the match. Trump and his defenders said he told supporters to protest peacefully and that blaming him for every person in that crowd was a stretch. The House impeached Trump again – making him the first president ever to get impeached twice – but the Senate, for the second time, didn’t have enough votes to convict. So once again, Washington Dems (and some RINOS who hate Trump) turned up the drama dial to eleven… and still couldn’t close the deal.
The impeachments of Trump were sold as the constitutional equivalent of DEFCON 1 both times. But it turns out that at least one of the impeachments appears to be a fraud from the beginning. SHOCKER!!
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) told Just the News that lawmakers are weighing whether to expunge President Donald Trump’s first impeachment over the Ukraine phone call – in other words, remove it from the official record entirely. Can’t you just hear the heads of Democrats all across the country exploding??
The reasoning? Critics argue the case relied heavily on secondhand accounts, while evidence of bias was not fully aired during the House impeachment proceedings, despite Democrats’ claims at the time that the situation was urgent and we were staring at a threat to democracy.
Just the News has reported that declassified memos from the 2019 Ukraine whistleblower saga suggest the complaint that helped spark Trump’s first impeachment leaned heavily on hearsay. The CIA analyst identified in reports as Eric Ciaramella reportedly acknowledged he had no direct knowledge of Trump’s conversations with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, instead relying on second- and third-hand accounts.
The documents also raise questions about potential political bias, noting Ciaramella’s ties to Democrats and his work with then-Vice President Joe Biden on Ukraine policy.
If Republicans follow through on this (and that’s a BIG if), it won’t erase the political war that defined those years – but it would send a blunt message about how far Washington Democrats stretched the rules (lied) to score points and “get” Trump.
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